Butterfly Attracting Plant Perennial Plant For Sale In Lakewood

Grow 12-16'' tall. Plant 10'' apart in full to part sun. Blooms from early summer into fall! Enjoy masses of 3'' orange-red blooms tipped with yellow. For a rain garden. Ideal for cut-flowers.

Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers. Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

Lanceolata contains phenylethanoids such as acteoside (verbascoside), cistanoside F, lavandulifolioside, plantamajoside and isoacteoside. The leaves contain mucilage, tannin and silic acid.

* It grows in sunny, rocky or brushy places, with more or less mineral rich soils, at an altitude of 0–400 metres (0–1,300 ft) above sea level. * This is a glandular, woolly perennial which approaches a maximum height of two metres.Its erect, branching...

Mixed colors only. Sweet William blooms in early summer with flowers that have a sassy, spicy fragrance. Sweet William is a popular favorite because this perennial has large clusters of small blooms that come in striking colors of red, pink, white, and...

They grow well in sun or light shade. It is an easy to grow perennial that spreads fast. Enjoy astonishing numbers of snowy, gold-centered blooms every June and July. Choice one-year-old field-grown plants.

* It succeeds on shallow chalky soils. * A drought resistant plant once established. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

Although the Sweet William is a perennial species, it is quite short-lived and degenerates after its second year. The flowers have a strong clove-like scent. * Dianthus barbatus ( Sweet William ) is a species of Dianthus native to the mountains of southern...

Both are dried for later use. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. An infusion has been used in the treatment of fevers and heart problems.

The leaves are opposite on the square stems, 6–15 cm long and 3–8 cm broad, and dark green with reddish leaf veins and a coarsely toothed margin; they are glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, with spreading hairs below.

Raise Monarch Butterflies in your own backyard! The Monarchs migrate through our area just as the Asclepias begin to awaken in spring, just in time for the females to lay their eggs on the new growth.

In the wild Scarlet Beebalm is most common in the Northeastern and Northcentral US and may prefer afternoon shade in the hotter portions of its range. Dig and divide every 2-3 years for the best results.

Masses of 1" yellow-eyed bluish purple daisies absolutely cover this plant for weeks in late summer and fall. May not tolerate poor drainage but at the same time will do well in most soils from clay, calcareous, limestone, and sand.

Blooms from summer to autumn with red flowers up to 3/4" long. * Erect, bushy annual with oval to heart-shaped, toothed, hairy, dark green leaves 2 1/2" long. * The plant reaches 2 to 4 ft (0.61 to 1.2 m) in height, with many branches, and a spread of...

Trunk to 30 cm d.b.h. or more. * Trees, 6-20 m tall. Petiole 2-4.5 cm; leaf blade often purplish red when young, greenish when mature, cordate or triangular-orbicular, * Open or dense forests, mountain slopes, along valleys near roads, on rocks; 600-1900...

Grandiflorum is one of the most popular trilliums in cultivation, primarily because of the size of its flowers and its relative ease of cultivation. Grandiflorum was designated the provincial emblem of Ontario in 1937 (Flora Emblem Act).

To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties The large, 3-4" wide, raspberry red flowers are centered by a corolla of raspberry red filaments that fade to bright...

Katie Blue Dwarf Mexican Petunia is a lovely dwarf perennial that produces loads of bluish purple trumpet shaped flowers tucked in among the dark green glossy foliage from spring to frost on a compact low mounding plant.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * Ratibida columnifera , commonly known as Upright Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat , is a species of flowering...

Each bloom is a massive cluster of pink flowers with honey fragrance – needless to say the best bee and butterfly magnet. This is unique selection of butterfly bush has a small frame, but exceptionally large blooms flowering all season long.

4-5" wide flowers with white petals and sepals are topped by a crown of white filaments with a light purple halo surrounding the central portion of these exotic looking flowers. To learn more see the Passionfruit datasheet by Purdue Horticulture: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html#Varieties...

Reaches 8-10' and can be trimmed to 6-8'. The flowers have same fragrance as honeysuckle vines. You can't beat this radiant pink Honeysuckle for a tall screen of background hedge. Quite hardy and disease resistant.

Anise or Brazilian Sage, Salvia guaranitica , is an upright growing perennial that may flower nearly continuously from spring to frost. It has been known to spread by rhizomes but under most conditions stays neatly where it's put and where hardy will...

For more information see an excellent article from JC Raulston Arboretum by clicking here or the "More info from Universities, ..." to the left. Even the new growth is bright red adding to its color show.

Plant Rough Coneflower as a specimen or in mass for a wonderful effect. A clump forming native that flowers from late spring through mid-summer and sometimes into fall. Drought tolerant once well-established but it does enjoy average moisture.

" by Gavin Ballantyne and Pat Willmer. The Purple Porterweed is a medium sized variety becoming fairly dense as it matures. For more information see the research paper " Nectar Theft and Floral Ant-Repellence: A Link between Nectar Volume and Ant-Repellent...